# Unbed — Elevate Your Mornings > Physical block alarm app for waking up and establishing sleep routines. (iPhone/iPad app by Unbed Technologies Inc..) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/unbed/id6739950076 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Unbed Technologies Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/1786455003) - Category: Productivity, Utilities - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Rating: 4.70/5 from 669 App Store ratings · 165 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 31 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-07-31 - Data updated: 2026-08-25 - Monetization: free with in-app purchases - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/unbed/id6739950076/reviews.md ## What is Unbed? Start your day off on the right foot with Unbed. Say goodbye to snooze buttons and procrastinating in bed. Wake up feeling refreshed and productive so you can achieve more in your mornings and especially in your day. • Turn your alarm off by tapping your phone on your Unbed block to ensure that you get out of bed in the morning. Say goodbye to mornings wasted in bed and achieve more. • Perfect for heavy sleepers, as your phone will ring and vibrate until you turn off your alarm only by tapping your phone on your Unbed block. • Create habits for your bedtime and morning routines. Every evening you will get a notification for your bedtime to remind you to schedule your alarm for the next day. Creating a bedtime habit of going to sleep at the right time, while also making sure that you don't sleep longer than needed in the morning and start your day off on the right foot. • Recommended for: - Those who tried multiple ways of fixing their sleep schedule but remain unsuccessful - Those who want to have a solid bedtime and morning routine for better sleep - Those who want to achieve more during their days - Those who don't want to waste their time in bed anymore In order to use this app, you must have an Unbed block. You can purchase yours here: https://unbedapp.com The Unbed block is a device that is needed for this app, as you schedule and stop your alarms from ringing by tapping the Unbed block. Your privacy is very important for us and because of this, we do not track any of your usage on our app. For more information, you can visit our Privacy Policy: https://unbedapp.com/policies/privacy ## Key features - Physical block alarm deactivation - Habit formation for bedtime - Morning routine scheduling - Bedtime reminders - Reduced procrastination ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Unbed+ | $39.99 | per year | | Unbed+ Monthly | $8.99 | per month | ## What do users think of Unbed? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Effective at getting users out of bed - 🚀 Helpful in establishing morning routines - 💡 Innovative concept of using a physical block to stop alarms - 👍 Positive impact on users' productivity and punctuality - 👍 Customizable alarm settings and features **Cons** - 🐛 App stability and reliability issues - 🐛 Difficulty turning off alarms or recurring alarms - 🔋 High battery consumption - 🔒 Potential security concerns with disabling the app - 👎 Confusing or unintuitive app interface **Commonly reported bugs** - App terminating unexpectedly - Alarms not going off as scheduled - Issues with scanning the NFC block - Inconsistent alarm behavior **Most requested features** - Add option to set one-time alarms - Improve alarm management (e.g., ability to turn off alarms) - Enhance app stability and reliability - Optimize battery usage - Improve app design and user experience ## Recent user reviews (10 of 165) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/unbed/id6739950076/reviews.md ### 5/5 — Saved My Job *2026-08-18* Unbed has been a game changer. I have had problems with oversleeping for so long. I got fired from a job for missing opening shifts. I was put on a performance improvement plan with my current job. I’ve missed doctor’s appointments, family commitments, etc. because of oversleeping. I tried bed shakers, the ShockClock, various alarms that promised to get me out of bed. UnBed has been the first thing to work. All the others I found ways to shut off or work around, or I’d simply fall back asleep in my morning zombie state. Unbed doesn’t play. I bought it back in January when the app was still fairly simple and I did have some trouble at that point with being able to work around loose protections. Yall, this is a small company. It takes time to grow and learn and work out the bugs. As they’ve added to the app it’s pretty watertight. It’s integrated into screen time so you can’t delete it, there are settings that stop you from changing the alarm after bedtime, you can block apps, plus a million other awesome features. I set it to where I have to take a picture of the sky to shut the alarm off so I have to physically walk outside or at least open a window. And there’s plenty of other challenges. Overall just an incredible app. I get out of bed on time. I’m off my improvement plan at work. I don’t doom scroll until 2am. It’s been awesome. Thanks for saving my job y’all! ### 3/5 — Really good app!! But… *2026-08-15* I have had a hard time getting out of bed my entire life, and I’ve tried all sorts of things to try and make myself get up, with nothing lasting very long. Unbed is the first time I’ve had such success, because it’s really nonnegotiable. If you walk back to your room and lay back in bed after the unbed alarm, well— nothing is gonna work for you LOL. It makes you get up, and it won’t let your evil, sleepy self escape from the morning! Now I got this just a few weeks before the subscription and account aspects showed up, so I had a small amount of time to get used to the base app, and I will say that I think there are a few things that need tuning after that update. Is Morning Peace now locked behind a subscription to set it to an alarm? Because it doesn’t work anymore for me. I have to go and find it and activate it, which kind of defeats the purpose of blocking them right after waking up because I can allow myself to be tempted to just not turn it on. I’m glad none of the base features have been put behind a subscription, but it feels a bit like the base app needs a bit of tuning so that people who can’t afford a subscription are getting the exact same experience that people were before the subscription update. Also, I am a bit disturbed by one of the features in unbed plus— that it LISTENS IN without any extra device, listening to you sleep to somehow detect the best time to wake you up…? That feels wrong. How can we know the app doesn’t just have the capability to listen in whenever? How on earth can it detect the sleep cycle from the sound of the room it’s in without any extra devices? It’s just rather disturbing to me. This is such a helpful app and tool, I really hope it isn’t violating people’s privacy like that. **Developer response:** Thank you for your review, and congrats on the streak of getting up! Two important clarifications. Morning Peace is not behind the subscription. Nothing from the original app was paywalled. Alarm Lock, Deletion Protection, App Blocking, and Morning Peace are all free and will stay free. What you're noticing is a change in 3.0: Morning Peace now auto starts only when your alarm is dismissed within your bedtime schedule's wake up window. If you haven't set up a bedtime schedule in the Hard Mode tab, or your max wake up time is set too early, it won't kick in automatically anymore. Setting up a bedtime schedule with a max wake up time comfortably after your alarm will restore the old behavior. On the microphone: your concern is fair, so here's exactly how it works. The mic is only active during a sleep session you explicitly start, and iOS enforces this. You'll see the orange microphone indicator whenever it's in use, and you can verify us anytime in Settings, Privacy, App Privacy Report. All analysis happens entirely on your iPhone and nothing is ever uploaded to our servers. It listens for movement, noise levels, and sound categories like snoring, coughing, or sleep talking to estimate sleep cycles, the same technique nightstand sleep apps have used for years, and it all stays on your device. If you never turn sleep tracking on, the app never requests mic access at all. If you ever have any questions about any functionalities or are running into issues, shoot us an email at hello@unbedapp.com and we'll make sure everything is clear and works! Thanks for holding us to a high standard. That's how the app gets better. The Unbed Team :) ### 5/5 — Hard Mode Is the Best *2026-08-07* I’ve had this app for months. I found a loophole in the morning where you could delete the app, and the alarm would stop. Ever since they’ve added the hard mode update, you literally cannot stop the alarm or delete the app until you scan your block. These developers are on point. They even added the option to add your own alarm, which means they’re listening to their consumers. To the developers, please add the option to get rid of the emergency shut offs. I’m a shift worker so this thing is a life saver. If you’re like me, and don’t trust yourself, get this. The Unbed block is a game changer. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for this review! Really glad Hard Mode closed that loophole for you 😄 And great news, there's actually already an option to disable Emergency Stops in Settings! Really appreciate the kind words and your support! ❤ ### 1/5 — Account required *2026-08-05* Made it required to have an account for a product that was already paid for when previously it wasn’t required **Developer response:** Hey, fair point, and we should have communicated this change much better before it went live. That's on us. To be clear on what the account is and isn't: it doesn't cost anything, and nothing you paid for is affected. Every feature your block came with stays fully free, forever. The account exists for three reasons only. Counterfeit blocks were letting people use the app without ever buying an Unbed, which hurt us as a small company. Two people can now share a block and an Unbed+ subscription together. And it lays the groundwork for optional cloud backup down the road, so your settings can move to a new phone if you ever want that. We don't sell your data or use it for anything beyond validating your block and linking orders. If anything's giving you trouble with the switch, write us at hello@unbedapp.com and we'll help. Thanks, The Unbed Team :) ### 5/5 — Easy breezy set up and immediate results *2026-08-05* This was so easy to set up. Nice UX and simple and straightforward. This has without a doubt changed my morning routine **Developer response:** This made our day. Changing morning routines is exactly what we built Unbed for, so hearing it's working for you means a lot. Thanks for taking the time to share it, and if you ever need anything, we're at hello@unbedapp.com. Thanks, The Unbed Team :) ### 1/5 — Terrible Update *2026-08-03* Latest update is making me confirm my block. Funnily enough I’m opening the app because I’m in bed checking it’s on for tomorrow. Used regular alarm but whatever. Since came down to sort the next day and it’s business as usual. Go to sleep again and I have to confirm. Now I go to confirm and it’s back to normal. Wasting my time and not sure it will even work tomorrow. Now has a bunch of pay gated features, after paying £25 for a 3d printed nfc tag and alarm app. Greed beyond measure ruined what was a decent product. Would return if I could. **Developer response:** Hey, what you're seeing isn't the app breaking, but we clearly didn't explain it. Verifying your block is a one time thing, and the app lets you postpone it a few times so you're never stuck at bedtime. That's why it sometimes asks and sometimes waves you through. Once you scan your block a single time, it never asks again. And your alarm will still fire either way, we made sure verification never blocks a scheduled alarm. On the pay gated features: nothing you paid for moved behind a paywall. Everything your block did before is still free and always will be. Unbed+ is a separate optional tier with new extras, and you'll only ever see it mentioned if you tap to learn about one of its features. We'll be transparent about why it exists. We're a small company, and a one time block purchase funds that block, but not the years of updates, servers and support that come after it. Unbed+ is what lets us keep the company alive and keep building this app for the long run. Without something sustainable behind it, Unbed eventually stops improving, and that's the opposite of what we want. To be clear though, the free app is not taking a back seat. We'll keep adding new core features that stay free, non Unbed+ users get 100% of our attention, and our mission is to keep growing Unbed for everyone. Unbed+ is just how we make sure we're still here to do it. As for accounts, they exist to stop counterfeit blocks, to let two people share a block and an Unbed+ subscription together, and to prepare optional cloud backup for later. That's the whole story. We're sorry the rollout wasted your time. If anything still feels off, you can directly get in contact with us at hello@unbedapp.com. Thanks, The Unbed Team :) ### 1/5 — Update *2026-08-03* Since the update my account has been whipped and can’t log back in with my email or phone number **Developer response:** Hey Andrew, we’re sorry to hear that you ran into issues with your account. Please contact us at hello@unbedapp.com in order to find out what happened. We’re sorry about this inconvenience and want to sort this out for you as quickly as possible. Thanks, The Unbed Team :) ### 1/5 — AWFUL *2026-08-03, version V3.0* Warning: All positive reviews are paid for ### 1/5 — Changed the product *2026-08-03* Bought the product and have been using it but they’ve changed the app months later to now require a personal account. I don’t want or see the need to hand over my data for an alarm app. **Developer response:** Hey, we understand the hesitation, but there’s genuinely very little data involved. Creating an account doesn’t hand us anything meaningful. We use it to validate that your block is genuine and to link Unbed+ orders for those who buy it, and that’s it. We don’t sell anything, we don’t run ads, and your alarms and settings stay on your phone. There’s no data business hiding behind an alarm app here. The reasons we added accounts are practical. Counterfeit blocks were letting people use the app without ever buying an Unbed, which hurt us directly as a small company. Many people share their block with a partner, and accounts make that work properly. And eventually we want to offer cloud backup so your settings can follow you to a new phone, which will be entirely optional if you ever want it. Changing the requirements months after your purchase without explaining any of this clearly was our mistake, and we’re sorry for the frustration. If you have questions, we’re at hello@unbedapp.com. Thanks, The Unbed Team :) ### 2/5 — battery killer *2026-08-02* this app drained 76% of my phone battery just by running in the background yesterday. seems the new update caused this, as it hasn’t happened any other day, phone was charged to 50% before going to bed and it drained to 0% overnight, so no alarm. This absolutely needs fixing or i’ll be returning. **Developer response:** Hey Melissa, thanks for flagging this. The update definitely isn’t supposed to drain your battery like that, and 50 to 0 overnight isn’t normal behavior for Unbed at all. Something clearly went wrong on your device and we want to figure out what. Please reach out to us at hello@unbedapp.com so we can look at exactly what happened and get you a proper fix. In the meantime, a quick thing you can try is enabling Battery Saver Mode inside the app’s settings, which reduces how much the app does in the background. Sorry your alarm didn’t fire because of this. That’s the one thing Unbed exists to do, so we take it seriously. Hope to hear from you. Thanks, The Unbed Team :) ## Frequently asked questions about Unbed ### What does the Unbed app do? The Unbed app is designed to help you wake up on time and establish healthy sleep routines. It works in conjunction with a physical Unbed block to ensure you get out of bed when your alarm goes off, preventing snooze button abuse and morning procrastination. ### How do I turn off the alarm? To turn off the alarm, you must physically tap your phone on the Unbed block. This unique mechanism ensures that you are out of bed and awake, rather than simply silencing the alarm from under the covers. ### Is the Unbed app free to use? The app itself is free to download and use. However, it requires the purchase of a physical Unbed block to function, as this block is essential for scheduling and deactivating alarms. ### What are the benefits of using Unbed? Unbed helps you wake up feeling refreshed and productive by encouraging you to get out of bed immediately. It also assists in creating consistent bedtime and morning routines, which can lead to better sleep quality and increased daily achievement. ### What devices is Unbed compatible with? The app description does not specify exact compatibility details. However, it is designed to work with smartphones that can interact with the physical Unbed block via tapping. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### V3.0.1 — 2026-08-18 Bug fixes for V3.0 ### V3.0 — 2026-07-31 •Introducing Unbed+. The upgrade your alarm needed. Wake-Up Challenges to get the blood flowing, Smart Alarm for gentler wake-ups powered by Sleep Tracking, and Focus Mode to block distracting apps all day. Try it free for 7 days. • Accounts are here. Link your order with just the email or phone you bought with, and set up gifted Blocks in seconds. • Bug fixes and performance improvements. ### V2.4 — 2026-06-06 - Introducing Hard Mode: set a bedtime window that locks your alarms, prevents you from deleting Unbed and blocks distracting apps until you scan your Unbed Block - Bedtime scheduling with up to 2 windows (weekdays + weekends) - Name your alarms ### 2.3 — 2026-03-27 - Added emergency stop feature - You can now add your custom sounds - Shuffle feature introduced - NFC scanning imporvements ### 2.2 — 2026-02-18 - Added silent sound for AlarmKit to be silent (ideal for Apple Watches). - Added feature to remove alarm vibration. - Added Battery Saver Mode for iOS 26. 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